Oh - how sweet it is!!! Coloniel Klink is going to have a primary opponent. Just when it couldn't get any worse for Charlie Brown with McClintock getting into the race - now he is going to have to spend money to win a primary!

I guess Brown will know how John Doolittle felt when Mike Holmes, aided and abetted by liberal Republicans softened Doolittle up for him in 2006.

Brown is going to think that losing by a field goal in 2006 was the glory days. Prediction: McClintock 61- Brown 38.

The primary opponent was reported on by the Auburn Journal's Jim Ruffalo who has a major issue with the Placer GOP committee and uses his colum to take cheap shots at it.

Enter Mike Holmes again - fresh off of running against John Doolittle twice - he issues barb after barb against the Placer GOP Central Committee as an opening campaign statement. I am sure Doug Ose agrees with Holmes.

I thought the quote about the Big Tent was priceless. Ose must have missed that memo years ago.

No place like Holmes: City councilman Mike Holmes, who left the Fourth Congressional race just at the right time, says he's not through with politics.

He told the Meddlers that he was running for a seat on the Placer County Republican Central Committee, which to my way of thinking is somewhat akin to volunteering to test hand grenades in a closet.

Holmes said the current status of the county GOP usually results in not enough candidates for the central committee's available seats.

"So then we wind up with just enough people volunteering so that there's no election, or worse, where there are not enough candidates, and the central committee winds up appointing their friends," he said.

"What I'm trying to suggest is that we get enough people to run so that there's a real election. Without a vote, central committee members don't have that gravity of having been voted in by their peers," Holmes added.

With that in mind, he's tossed his hat into the ring, and is actively recruiting other would-be candidates to file before the March 7 deadline.

Of course, there could be some problems, such as the current entrenched leaders yelling and screaming that Holmes' efforts might amount to a takeover by Progressives (and we all know how close we'll come to the Apocalypse should that happen).

"I hope this doesn't get construed as a battle between RINOS (so-called Republicans In Name Only) versus the Neocons," Holmes said, adding that it's time the local GOP organization returned to Ronald Reagan's Big Tent idea.

No doubt Reagan, whose famed 11th Commandment insisted that "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican," probably wouldn't have liked the idea of a central committee endorsing one party member over another in a primary...

The entire Ruffalo Column is linked here.